Mesa’s LLVMpipe software driver is now exposing system Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support with the necessary API bits being in place for the modern Rusticl OpenCL driver as well as the older Clover code. Plus with being a CPU-based driver there isn’t any added work or complications around shared virtual memory…

Source: Phoronix – LLVMpipe Now Exposes Shared Virtual Memory Support

Red Hat engineers are looking at making it more evident on Fedora IoT, CoreOS, and Server editions when firmware updates become available for the hardware in use…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora Looking To Better Alert Server Administrators Around Firmware Updates

WineConf as what had been the regularly hosted Wine developer conference for this open-source project devoted to running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms is likely over. Due to dwindling attendance and no one stepping up to organize the next WineConf, the developer conference is on hiatus but in place there may end up being something like a Proton conference in the future…

Source: Phoronix – WineConf Likely Over But There May Be A Proton / Gaming Developer Conference

Last month saw the first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.2 that introduces Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksums, and block cloning capabilities. Out this weekend is a second release candidate as OpenZFS 2.2 nears release…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2-rc2 Brings Linux 6.5 Compatibility Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed

Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1’2024…

Source: Phoronix – Plasma 6 Can Now Play A Sound When Plugging In USB Devices

In addition to Proton 8.0-3 being released today for Steam Play, Wine 8.13 is out today as the latest bi-weekly release of this software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.13 Released With Three Dozen Bugs Fixed

Proton 8.0-3 is rolling out on Steam that powers Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux. Proton 8.0-3 brings many fixes and gets more Windows games now running gracefully on Linux desktop systems as well as the Steam Deck…

Source: Phoronix – Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes

The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address “VA” Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements…

Source: Phoronix – GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6

The most common request from my recent ROG Ally benchmarking with the Ryzen Z1 SoC and also the Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC testing has been wanting to know how these Zen 4 mobile processors compete with Apple’s M2 on Linux. Well, for those curious, here are some initial performance figures of the Apple M2 in a MacBook Air running Asahi Linux up against the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 7840U SoCs on Linux.

Source: Phoronix – Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs

Vulkan 1.3.258 was published today as the newest revision to this high performance graphics and compute API. There’s many fixes with the last Vulkan spec update having been in early July but making this release more notable are two new extensions…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.258 Released With New Host Image Copy Extension, NVIDIA DGC Compute

First up the belated Mesa 23.1.4 is now available as the latest stable point release in the Mesa 23.1 series…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.1.4 Released With Intel Optimization Backported, New ANV Optimization Merged

Future AMD CPUs will be having larger microcode patches and thus the Linux kernel is now being adapted to better handle that increased microcode payload…

Source: Phoronix – AMD CPU Microcode Will Be Getting Larger With Future Processors

Prior to LLVM/Clang becoming so popular within organizations and it maturing well on x86_64, AArch64, and other architectures, Open64 was once quite popular in areas now dominated by LLVM and GCC. Open64 had been popular with academic researchers, AMD even maintained their Open64 optimized compiler a decade prior to the LLVM-based AOCC, and was quite popular in the HPC space. Surprisingly there’s been some recent activity on the Open64 compiler code…

Source: Phoronix – The Open64 Compiler Seeing Some Recent Changes, clang2whirl Clang Open64 Front-End

New patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list prepare the AMD Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver for the upcoming AMD Instrinct MI300 APUs…

Source: Phoronix – AMD EDAC Linux Driver Gets Ready For The Instinct MI300 APUs

The release candidate for Mageia 9 is now available for this Linux distribution that’s an offshoot long ago from Mandrake/Mandriva lineage…

Source: Phoronix – Mageia 9-rc1 Now Available For This Long-Delayed Release

Linux has supported Quick Assist Technology (QAT) devices from the start whether it be QAT PCIe adapters or QAT support found within select Atom and Xeon CPUs as well as the latest-generation Sapphire Rapids CPUs. Only now though with the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel is it adding a heartbeat feature for determining if a QAT device becomes unresponsive so that it can be acted upon…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 To Deal With Unresponsive Intel QAT Devices

While the AMD EPYC 9754 “Bergamo” processor is impressive for having 128 physical Zen 4C cores, it also has Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) to provide for 256 threads per socket. Meanwhile with Ampere Altra Max and AmpereOne there is no SMT and it’s likely Intel’s upcoming Sierra Forest will also lack SMT (Hyper Threading) given it’s an E-core-only design. But that led to my curiosity over the SMT impact for Bergamo on power and performance when leveraging SMT for the 128-core flagship EPYC 9754. Today’s Bergamo benchmarking is looking at SMT on and off for both 1P and 2P server configurations.

Source: Phoronix – SMT Proves Worthwhile Option For 128-Core AMD EPYC “Bergamo” CPUs

While Intel is well known — and well regarded — as being one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel as well as being a significant player in many other open-source projects with their countless open-source software contributions over the years, Arm is now trying to better promote their open-source support and open contributions…

Source: Phoronix – Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For Panfrost

Qt Creator 11 is out today as the Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment…

Source: Phoronix – Qt Creator 11 Released With Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot Integration

Following a recent Intel Mesa driver improvement to yield ~10% better performance, another change is on the way that has the ability to boost the performance for at least one game by 12% and other games by smaller yields…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Preparing Another Linux Vulkan Driver Optimization To Help Gamers